Latin
girl names.
61 girl names of Latin origin, sorted by U.S. popularity.
Within the Latin girl side specifically, Emily, Christine, and Maria are the most-used in the U.S. record — a useful three-point sense of the register, since the rest of the list mostly varies between rarer literary, religious, and modern coinages.
This page shows 61 Latin girl names sorted by U.S. SSA totals — so the most-given names sit at the top and the rarer entries toward the bottom.
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